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by JamesTravel Europe by Tram is the perfect show when it's 4am and you're jet lagged. Well done NHK 👏
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The Week #318
by James- 🇬🇧 English classes went well for Leo. He is motivated to learn and speak English. While playing Switch at the hotel, he even started speaking to himself in English, "I hate lynel... because they are strong", which is perhaps the longest sentence I've heard him speak in English. By the end of the program he was playing with kids in the park, as kids do.
- 🛝 The Diana Memorial Playground re-opened and we were able to visit the opening weekend! I hadn't realized that Heer's bench was directly in front of the playground. When we arrived there was a massive queue. 30 minutes later and we made it in where Leo played for a couple of hours. As it hasn't rained in London for over a month, the water features were all off.
- 🍺 Leo wanted to visit a pub while we were in London, which doesn't too much convincing from me. I settled on The Engineer, which was a short walk from our hotel. The atmosephere was great and the food delicous. I shared the fish and chips with Leo and had a Guiness Zero. Love a cozy pub.
The Engineer at Golden-ish Hour - 🪐 On the plane ride home I watched Project Hail Mary. Such a good movie. If you haven't seen it yet, do watch it. It makes me wish I understood chemestry better – it seems quite useful when you're out in the middle of the galaxy and need to understand what it is that's around you.
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Checkin to Singapore Airlines SilverKris Lounge
Heading home -
Checkin to The Engineer
Love a pub -
Checkin to Diana Memorial Playground
Opening weekend after it being closed for renewal. So good! -
Checkin to Hamleys
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The Week #317
by James- ✈️ We flew to the UK – work for me and a week long english course for Leo. The flight itself was smooth as can be with ANA. While Leo didn't really watch movies on the console this time about, instead he played his switch and piano in Garageband.
- 🇬🇧 Escaping the humidity of Japan has been nice, but it's been 31 degrees during the day here as well. And it hasn't rained in a month, so parks that are usually full of green grass are brown. The mornings are still glorious. We went to the Diana Memorial Playground again this year, but it's still in the final stages of the rebuild. It's meant to be open for Summer 2026 – let's hope it finishes in the next couple of days.
- 🕹️ The Science Museum still has the video game history exhibit going, so we had to go. Many of the games were the same, but many where not. This year we played our first first-person shooters together with Golden Eye for the N64 and Halo3 on X-Box. The latter being his favorite game that he played this year.
- 🪩 We explored Camden as well. Last year we went to Camden after the London Zoo, we barely could see anything. This year we could actually go deep into Camden Market and browse / look around. I think the main driver for that was there are a number of anime and manga shops, so every so often he could see a lot of Dragon Ball figures or an entire Bandai store full of gacha-gacha 😅.
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Checkin to Three Uncles
Tasty noodles and rice with pork -
Checkin to Marylebone Green Playground
Perfect weather -
Checkin to Science Museum
Playing games before visiting the actual museum.
